Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-08-11

Michigan shall be at Detroit on Sept. Ii
and 10 to take part in the reunion OF the
Army OF the Tennessee, and at Chicago
from Oct. l to 10 for the military encamp
ment.
The following pensions have been granted:
Wisconsin: s.. Phillips, 0gdensburg; o. a.
A. Siensvud. Black Earth; c. label, Almas
i. Eggleston. New Diggings; f. Gereaw
Jhelsea; b. Elton. Boyd; J. +. Talmadgc.
Evansville; j. Burke. Sparta; 4. Van Ant
werp. Sparta; A. Knmm, Arthur. Dako-
Ia: Minors IL. Fox. Bismarck; J. Severe,
jamestown; J. II. McAllister, Freeman.
At New York, John C. Downer shot and
inflicted probably fatal wounds upon Will
lam Byrnes. and shot and killed Daniel
Lehan, who tried to interiors.
Kentucky went democratic by about
35, 600 majority. The following were elect
ed: Governor, Simon Bolivar, Ruckner;
lieutenant governor, @. w. Bryan; audi
tor. Favette Hewitt; treasurer, j. w.
Tate; attorney general, w. II. Hardin; su-
perintendent public instruction, J.D. Pick
EFT; land register, Thomas Corbet.
In South Camden, N. j., William w.
Wiltshire, fifty-two years OF age, and
keeper of an oyster saloon, shot and killed
his wife Ella, aged forty seven, murdered
Justice OF the Peace William s. Darr (col
oredl and then sent a bullet through his
own brain, dying almost instantly.
The Minnesota supreme court reverses
the famous "a qui Parle county-seat ION.
test. 1t also decides that the st. Paul
City Railway company is empowered, by
the act OF 1883 to lay it's tracks upon auy
street In the city.
Ex-Congressman w. ID. Washburn OF
Minneapolis is, with his family, at the
United States hotel, Saratoga.
Thomas T~ollaisen, a Minneapolis street
car driver, was murdered by a couple OF
hiehwaymen who carried of the money
box.
William A. Pinkerton, mahager Of the
Western division and the general Office OF
Pinkerton's detective agency, is in st.
Eau for the purpose of establishing the
branch office in st. Paul, which is to be
under the superinteudency of w. j. Lead
err has been fourteen years in the New York
Office and two years in the Philadelphia
Office, aud is familiar with the PiRkertons'
work.
Adit. Gen. Seeley has published an order
at the Fort Smelling camp declaring that
an examining board OF four officers OF as
high n rank as the cxigencics of the service
will permit, shall convene at headquarters
as often as requ ircd for the examination
Of such persons as have been elected. but
not yet commissioned as officers in the
national guard.
The secretary oil tho navy has awarded
the contract for constructing new dry
docks at the New York and Norfolk navy
yards to j. f. Simpson Il Co, ofNew York,
Tor 81. 061 $50.
The Hon. George S. Peters, United States
attorney Tor Utah Territory. has since his
return forwarded to Salt Lake City the
necessary papers to bring suit against the
Mormon church in behalf OF the United
States under the Edmunds- Tucker law Of
this year, which provides that no church
in any territcry shall own more than 500.
600 worth OF property. The Church oil
Jesust Christ, Latter Day Saints, is aimed
at, and the suit just filed seeks to disincor.
porate that institution.
A terrible famine ~preyailes on the 18TH
mus OF Panama.
An election was held in the Bridgeton
division of Glasgow, to ill the seat made
vacant By the resignation OF L. X. Russell,
a Home Rule Liberal. The election result.
ed in the return OF Sir George Otto Trcv-
leyan, the Liberal candidate. Sir Georges
victory is felt in Conservative circles to be
the severest blow the ufnionist cause has
yet experienced.
Secretary Lamar is wearing trousers
made OF cotton cloth woven ia Louisiana.
1t costs 40 a yard.
Postmasters commissioned: Minneso-
ta-Tintah, w. Brothers. WisConsin-Ash-
ford, II. j.. Mueller; Colgate, A. Ennis;
Friendswood, i. Bross; Synico, j. Scanton.
Fourth-class postmaster appointed-Min
nesota: Green Isle. I. Boland.
The annual report OF the Chicago and
Northwestern railway shows a large in
crease in income and in the volume OF
freight handled. Tho inerea. in gross
earnings was over SO. 100000 The great
increase in earnings was in freight. which
returned S19,329, 1873, or 81, S26, 239 more
than in the previous year. all of which re
suited from increased traffic, the rates be
ing slightly lower than in the previous
year. One OF the principal points shown
is that the company had on May 81 a cash
surplus Of nearly SO. 0o0, 600 after provid.
ing Tor all payments nj to June 20.
At Honor Mich. George shot his wife
twice, the first time III front OF the right
ear, the second time in the ear, and after
she fell he ran behind Mrs. ID. p. Hatch,
his mother in.law, and shot her, the bullet
entering the back oil the left ear. but not
piercing the skull. She fell, andhe suppos-
ing he had killed her shot himself. the ball
entering on the right side OF the head and
DeACctAtk III AhA gtikh - anu
his vile parted, and she had instituted
proceedings fer divorce.
Tim Clark and Charles Mccarthy, mid.
dle-weights, fought sixteen rounds at
Havre de Grace, Nd, Clark was whip
ped.
Gen. Boulanger's seconds publish a re.
port Of what they say transpire6 at the
conference between them and the seconds
OF NJ. Ferry. This report is in substance as
sollws: Gen. Boulanger desired q serious
reparatiop, one properly proportionnte 10
b e~gravity OF NJ. Ferry's atfront. On this nc.
count he proposed that the combatants
exchange shots until one was hit, the choice
of the distance to be left to the seconds oil
NJ. Ferry. Those conditions not being &C.
eepted. Gen. Boulanger's seconds agreed to
be content with nm exchange Of shots bt
Three young nihilists murdered Gen. Ne
vestroff's widow at Vladikavas and stole
500, 900 roubles. They were arrested
while trying to escape to Turkey.
A despatch from St. Paul de Loanda
dated July 81, says: "Jansse. governor o
Congo Free State, writes from Bombay
that since receiving news of the arrival o.
Stanley at camp on the Arnmihiini river,
no messenger has arrived from the uppe
Congo, and the first news of any accident
that might happen TO Stanley must be
brought by a Congo State messenger, ex.
peoted at Bama in a few days"
Again does the president make it known
that he bankers not for visiting delega.
tons. 1t is probable that he win leave
Washington the last days of September
and go directly to ST. Louis. and from
there to Kansas City. st. Paul. Minneapo-
lis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Nashville and At
lanta. The st. Louis and Atlanta dates
being fixed, it will not be practicable to
deyiate much ron this programme.
At Palatka, Fla, William F. Forward,
clerk OF the circuit court, register OF deeds,
county auditor. secretary OF the board 81
county commissioners, chairman OF the
Democratic county executive committee
and son OF ex.tircuit J1dgc Forward, has
been suspended by the governor on charges
OF malieasance, embezzlemeRt multilation
OF records and various private disreputa.
bic transactions. involving $50, 900.
The Maryland state convention OF Pro.
hibitionists nominated the following ticket
here: Governor, Summerfield Baldwin Of
Baltimore; attorney general, Janice Pol
lard OF Baltimore; comptroller, James f.
Wright OF Cambridge.
The secretary OF the interior has taken
another step in the matter OF the allot-
ment OF lands in seyeraity, and has APP
pointed several agents to superintend this
work. The following agents nave been
thus far appointed James Il, Howard,
Washington, for the Crow Indians on the
Grow reservation in Montana; Henry w.
West, Woodfeld. O., for the Yankton In.
dams in Dakutn; Alice G. Fletcher, Wash.
ington, for the Winrebagoes in Nebraska;
M. C. Connolly. Petersburg. ILL.,, to she Sill.
etz reservation in Oregon, and Isaiah
Lightner. Nebraska, to the Sisseton reser.
walton in Dakota.
There is u runner that the Illinois su
preme court has decided not to grant @
new trial to the anarchists.
Mrs. DIR. Ellis, an American lady. is ply
stefan to the queen OF Corea with Il salar,
of SIS, 900 n e
patrick n,Rrien intends 10 nnnatinr